Here Is What You Do: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781641290364)

A debut short story collection that explores the vulnerability, grit, and complex nature of our humanity from a new, vital queer voice.

A yacht races to outrun a tsunami. A young man jailed on a drug charge forms a relationship with his cellmate that is by turns tender and brutal. A family buys a rural slaughterhouse, and tensions with their religious neighbors quickly escalate. A teen raised by his eccentric gay father, a Turkish immigrant, finds his life fractured by violence. A fictionalized Coretta Scott King, surveilled and harassed by the FBI, considers the costs of her life with her husband.

Here Is What You Do is a bravura, far-ranging collection, its stories linked by sorrow and latent hope, each one drilling toward its characters' darkest emotional centers. In muscularly robust prose, with an unfailing eye for human drives and frailties, Chris Dennis captures the raw need, desire, cruelty, and promise that animate our lives.

Author: Chris Dennis
ISBN-10: 1641290366
ISBN-13: 9781641290364
Publisher: Soho Press
Language: English
Published: 06/25/2019
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/15/2019
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2019